D‐lactic acid as a metabolite: toxicology, diagnosis, and detection

M Pohanka - BioMed Research International, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Two enantiomers of lactic acid exist. While L‐lactic acid is a common compound of human
metabolism, D‐lactic acid is produced by some strains of microorganism or by some less …

Bacterial responses to glyoxal and methylglyoxal: reactive electrophilic species

C Lee, C Park - International journal of molecular sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
Glyoxal (GO) and methylglyoxal (MG), belonging to α-oxoaldehydes, are produced by
organisms from bacteria to humans by glucose oxidation, lipid peroxidation, and DNA …

Presence of unique glyoxalase III proteins in plants indicates the existence of shorter route for methylglyoxal detoxification

A Ghosh, HR Kushwaha, MR Hasan, A Pareek… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Glyoxalase pathway, comprising glyoxalase I (GLY I) and glyoxalase II (GLY II) enzymes, is
the major pathway for detoxification of methylglyoxal (MG) into D-lactate involving reduced …

DJ‐1 is not a deglycase and makes a modest contribution to cellular defense against methylglyoxal damage in neurons

MC Mazza, SC Shuck, J Lin, MA Moxley… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Human DJ‐1 is a cytoprotective protein whose absence causes Parkinson's disease and is
also associated with other diseases. DJ‐1 has an established role as a redox‐regulated …

[HTML][HTML] 2-Hydroxy acids in plant metabolism

VG Maurino, MKM Engqvist - The Arabidopsis book/American …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Glycolate, malate, lactate, and 2-hydroxyglutarate are important 2-hydroxy acids
(2HA) in plant metabolism. Most of them can be found as D-and L-stereoisomers. These …

The apparent deglycase activity of DJ-1 results from the conversion of free methylglyoxal present in fast equilibrium with hemithioacetals and hemiaminals

A Andreeva, Z Bekkhozhin, N Omertassova… - Journal of Biological …, 2019 - ASBMB
Loss-of-function mutations in the gene encoding human protein DJ-1 cause early onset of
Parkinson's disease, suggesting that DJ-1 protects dopaminergic neurons. The molecular …

Chemical toolkit for PARK7: potent, selective, and high-throughput

Y Jia, RQ Kim, R Kooij, H Ovaa, A Sapmaz… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The multifunctional human Parkinson's disease protein 7 (PARK7/DJ1) is an attractive
therapeutic target due to its link with early-onset Parkinson's disease, upregulation in …

Parkinson's disease-related DJ-1 functions in thiol quality control against aldehyde attack in vitro

N Matsuda, M Kimura, BB Queliconi, W Kojima… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
DJ-1 (also known as PARK7) has been identified as a causal gene for hereditary recessive
Parkinson's disease (PD). Consequently, the full elucidation of DJ-1 function will help …

Parkinsonism-associated protein DJ-1 is an antagonist, not an eraser, for protein glycation

Q Gao, JW Jacob-Dolan, RA Scheck - Biochemistry, 2023 - ACS Publications
Advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) are irreversible protein modifications that are
strongly associated with aging and disease. Recently, the Parkinsonism-associated protein …

Comparative analysis of glyoxalase pathway genes in Erianthus arundinaceus and commercial sugarcane hybrid under salinity and drought conditions

VM Manoj, P Anunanthini, PC Swathik, S Dharshini… - BMC genomics, 2019 - Springer
Background Glyoxalase pathway is a reactive carbonyl species (RCS) scavenging
mechanism involved in the detoxification of methylglyoxal (MG), which is a reactive α …